TY  - JOUR
AU  - Alston,Lee J.
AU  - Gallo,Andrés A.
TI  - Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15209
PY  - 2009
Y2  - August 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15209
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15209.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Lee J. Alston
Institutions Program
Institute of Behavioral Science
Department of Economics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO  80309-0483
Tel: 303/492-4257
Fax: 303/492 2151
E-Mail: Lee.Alston@colorado.edu

Andrés A. Gallo
Department of Economics
University of North Florida
Jacksonville FL 32224
E-Mail: agallo@unf.edu
AB  - The future looked bright for Argentina in the early twentieth century. It had already achieved high levels of income per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never finished the transition. The turning point occurred in the 1930s when to stay in power, the Conservatives in the Pampas resorted to electoral fraud, which neither the legislative, executive, or judicial branches checked. The decade of unchecked electoral fraud led to the support for Juan Peron and subsequently to political and economic instability.
ER  -